This. If it pans out the way it seems it will then I'll make sure to grow whatever I make (minus infinity pool) and use it to fund all sorts of efforts to help fix this planet.
There are a handful of things so absurdly simple and effective that they'd end totalitarianism within a single generation.
One of them being everyone knowing about how simple regular no-skill set-and-forget investments will guarantee wealth in any scenario that doesn't involve total nuclear war or asteroid wipeout.
Run the numbers, a young adult investing 2.5/40 hours per week of minimum wage until retirement is set and will leave some for his kids.
Virtually nobody works minimum wage for all of their life. Especially not if they understand how just a marginal increase in income will make a wealthy lifestyle possible before retirement.
A kid getting some summer jobs can guarantee wealthy retirement before 50 by just earning a sub-median income.
And with the above in mind people will also very quickly realize that they do not want ANY taxes that aren't voluntary, as well as that they have the power to directly influence and help grow and fast-track society while earning good money in the process.
There's a reason this isn't part of the curriculum even in fascist countries like within the EU, where homeschooling is illegal and the curriculum is nationalized.
If Socialist Security, hell, even if a small percentage of what a person is forced to blow on SS were invested in the market, everyone would be set for retirement.
Two things stop that from happening of course ... One being that the money is spent as it arrives ... The other is that they do not want people living without the need for government.
This. If it pans out the way it seems it will then I'll make sure to grow whatever I make (minus infinity pool) and use it to fund all sorts of efforts to help fix this planet.
There are a handful of things so absurdly simple and effective that they'd end totalitarianism within a single generation.
One of them being everyone knowing about how simple regular no-skill set-and-forget investments will guarantee wealth in any scenario that doesn't involve total nuclear war or asteroid wipeout.
Run the numbers, a young adult investing 2.5/40 hours per week of minimum wage until retirement is set and will leave some for his kids. Virtually nobody works minimum wage for all of their life. Especially not if they understand how just a marginal increase in income will make a wealthy lifestyle possible before retirement.
A kid getting some summer jobs can guarantee wealthy retirement before 50 by just earning a sub-median income.
And with the above in mind people will also very quickly realize that they do not want ANY taxes that aren't voluntary, as well as that they have the power to directly influence and help grow and fast-track society while earning good money in the process.
There's a reason this isn't part of the curriculum even in fascist countries like within the EU, where homeschooling is illegal and the curriculum is nationalized.
You are 100% correct about everything you posted.
If Socialist Security, hell, even if a small percentage of what a person is forced to blow on SS were invested in the market, everyone would be set for retirement.
Two things stop that from happening of course ... One being that the money is spent as it arrives ... The other is that they do not want people living without the need for government.